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Neighbourhood deprivation and quality of life among people with diabetes in England
No full textBackground: Income levels and Socio-economic status at the individual level are known to be associated with adverse health outcomes including risk of diabetes and its complications. However it is unclear how neighbourhood deprivation levels influence perceived quality of life among people with diabetes. This study investigated the relationship between neighbourhood deprivation and quality of life among people with diabetes attending two hospital trusts in Liverpool, England. Methods: eligible participants completed a set of study questionnaires including demographic characteristics and the Audit of Diabetes Dependent Quality of Life questionnaire. Postcode based neighbourhood deprivation data were obtained from the UK’s Department for Communities and Local Government website. Relevant statistical analyses were undertaken using SPSS version 22. Results: a total of 123 people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes participated in the study. Majority of participants were type 2 diabetes patients (53%) and about half were men (51%). Overall 20% of participants reported poor quality of life. Compared to those with type 2 diabetes, a higher proportion of people with type 1 diabetes reported good quality of life (58% vs. 61%; p<0.05). Poor neighbourhood deprivation was associated with poor quality of life, both in univariate and multivariate analysis (p<0.05). However, there was no significant association between neighbourhood deprivation and patients’ perceptions of how diabetes affected their quality of life (p>0.05). Conclusion: Neighbourhood deprivation levels are significantly associated with quality of life among people with diabetes and could potentially be used to guide interventions aimed at promoting their health and well-being
Epidemiology and Psychosocial Factors of Diabetes in West African and African-Origin Populations
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Correspondence: The Lancet’s chronic diseases series
No full textInfectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis are massive problems in the developing world, including Africa. Accordingly, African governments, donor and funding agencies, the UN, research organisations, and researchers have devoted most of their funds, time, resources, and knowledge into these diseases. Unfortunately, the thunder clouds of chronic diseases are rolling across the landscape.1 With Africa's urbanisation and westernisation, and the accompanying lifestyle changes, the rates of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes are, unsurprisingly, on the increase
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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